Throughout this past season for the Chicago Cubs, fans were very hopeful of the possibilities come October. The Cubs managed to win the National League Central Division with a record of 89 wins to 74 losses. In the month prior to the playoffs, Carlos Zambrano threw a no-hitter, and yet even this momentous game was not enough to drive the beloved Chicago team to its 1st World Series championship in 100 years.
When the playoffs began last week, the Cubs started off slow, losing their first two home games to the Los Angeles Dodgers. After the losses, it was a win or go home situation for the Cubbies, and only one team in the history of the game had pulled off an upset of coming back from a 2 game deficit, the Boston Red Sox of 2005. With this thought looming over the players' heads, they headed to Los Angeles to meet their fate. In a decent outing from star pitcher Rich Harden, the Cubs still could not manage to win, and lost their dreams of a championship with a 3-1 loss.
Perhaps the bad luck of the Cubs is from the curse of the Billy Goat, maybe it's just their destiny to not win. No one really knows why the Cubs have struggled so much for the past century, and no one really cares why. All the fans want is for the Cubs to win the World Series, and all I can say for now as big fan of the Cubs, is that we are very disappointed.
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